Friday Pocket is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Friday Pocket had a population of 39 people.

Geography

The Walter Hill Range runs from the north-west to the south-west of the locality and then forms the south-western and southern boundary of the locality. The only named peak in the locality is Mount Myrtle in the south of the locality () rising above sea level, the highest point in the locality. The land falls away from the range to the east with the lowest part of the locality being above sea level. A number of creeks rise on the eastern side of the Walter Hill Range and flow towards the locality's eastern boundary. To the west of the range, the land also falls away towards Smiths Gap, which loosely bounds the locality to the west. The

Bruce Highway The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian Natio ...

and North Coast railway line both enter the locality from the south-west ( Djarawong), passing through Smiths Gap before exiting to the north-west (

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). In the west of the locality is part of the Walter Hill Range Conservation Park, while in the south-west of the locality is the

Japoon National Park Japoon is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,306 km northwest of Brisbane. The park forms part of the Wooroonooran Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of a range of bir ...

extending into neighbouring Djarawong. Apart from these protected areas, the lower land in the east of the locality is used for growing crops (predominantly

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...

) with some

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housing and

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation. There are

cane tramways The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line. In 2013, it claimed to be the second largest narrow gauge network in the world. The network consists of the following lines: *the N ...

in the north of the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. The higher land around the range to the south and west is mostly undeveloped bushland.

History

Settlement in Friday Pocket occurred in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the development of roads and bridges into the area. In 1933, there were 35 farmers in the area were supplying 12,000 to 15,000 tons of sugarcane each year to the Tully sugar mill.

Demographics

In the , Friday Pocket had a population of 40 people. In the , Friday Pocket had a population of 39 people.

Education

There are no schools in Friday Pocket. The nearest government primary school is El Arish State School in neighbouring

El Arish ʻArish or el-ʻArīsh ( ' ) is the capital and largest city of the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, as well as the largest city on the Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediterranean coast northeast of Cairo and west of the Egypt–Gaza border ...

to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Tully State High School in Tully to the south-west.

References

{{Cassowary Coast Region Cassowary Coast Region Localities in Queensland